WTO: Before the storm

Expecting an entry to WTO by end of this year many potential foreign investor come to visit Vietnam. Tran Dac Sinh, director of the HCM City Securities Trading Centre [the stock market], said some 20 groups of international investors came to visit his centre every month.

But as the Trade Minister Truong Dinh Tuyen said last week, there is no hurry to join the organisation and not at all costs. He implies that the APEC summit, hold in Hanoi in November 2006 is not considered as a deadline.